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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Netflix's "The Man with 1000 Kids" is about a prolific Danish sperm donor, Jonathan Jacob Meijer.</li><li>In April 2023, Meijer was banned by a Dutch court from being a sperm donor.</li></ul><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-netflix-documentaries-released-2023">Netflix</a>'s latest docuseries, "The Man with 1000 Kids," raises questions about the ethics of sperm donation by telling the story of a man who claims to have fathered 550 children. Some mothers who have used Jonathan Jacob Meijer's sperm claim the number is much higher.Released on July 3, it features five couples who used Meijer as a sperm donor to start families after finding him on a website called "Longing for a Child." They each claim in the documentary that he told them they were the third or fourth couple that he had helped.But in 2017, Meijer was banned from donating sperm by the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology after it was found that he had donated to 11 different fertility clinics in the country, per <a target="_blank" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/dutch-sperm-donor-fathered-102-children/">The Telegraph</a>. This included the global sperm bank, Cryos International, which sent samples across the world.It's not the first time Netflix has covered the ethics of sperm donation. The 2022 documentary, "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fertility-doctor-our-father-sperm-pregnant-patients-2022-6">Our Father</a>," examined an American fertility doctor who misled couples by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fertility-doctor-sperm-impregnate-women-biologically-fathered-babies-netflix-2022-06">using his own sperm</a> to help them conceive.It was watched for 42.60 million hours within the first three weeks of release, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/what-to-watch/most-popular-new-documentaries-on-netflix-in-2022-so-far/">What's On Netflix</a>. The streamer, which has found great success with docuseries and true crime shows, will want to top that figure.A woman identified only as Natalie, who is one half of a Dutch couple who used Meijer's sperm in 2012, thinking they were his third couple, described the situation to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/man-with-1000-kids-true-story-netflix-b2570952.html">The Independent</a> as a "public health hazard." Natalie, who also appeared on the Netflix documentary, highlighted the possible ramifications for future generations because of the number of children Meijer has fathered.Her partner Suzanne said: "They can never just date somebody or have intercourse with somebody, they will always need to take care and even then they might not be aware that they're a donor child. It's a very dangerous and unhealthy situation for these children and for their children and grandchildren."In April 2023, Meijer was ordered by The Hague District Court to stop donating sperm, and he will face fines of €100,000 for every future violation, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/04/dutch-sperm-donor-who-may-have-fathered-550-kids-is-ordered-to-stop/">Dutch News</a> reported.But Meijer has a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanJacobMeijer">YouTube channel</a> where he documents his travels around the world, and the docuseries claims that he has donated to clinics globally."That's why we're still raising awareness, and hoping that there is a government that wants to put up legislation because that needs to happen," Natalie said. "Not just in individual countries, but globally. He is not stopping at borders, and he's not the only one. There are more out there."<div type="image" title="Jonathan Jacob Meijer on a beach as seen in Netflix's &quot;The Man with 1000 Kids.&quot;" height="1197" width="1596" msid="111466053" hostid="261" sizebytes="45442"></div>When asked about the claims that he has donated globally, Meijer told Business Insider: "As a bank donor doing regular visits, I only was active in the Netherlands for Cryos. Outside of them, I have been to a few clinics to donate one time and privately for a couple."Responding to Meijer's decision not to appear in the documentary, Natalie said: "He was given a right to respond. His comments are always: 'This is untrue and the women are just angry mothers.' We're not angry. We just want him to stop."On Wednesday, Meijer appeared on BBC's "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb">Woman's Hour</a>" to discuss the Netflix series and confirmed that, according to his records, he has had 550 children. Meijer also criticized the streamer for depicting him negatively."I think Netflix did a great job of selecting the five families out of the 225 families that I've helped, and they will definitely tell you something else. If someone calls this journalism or an official documentary I don't really see where's the value," he said.Meijer told BI he stopped donating sperm in 2019 and also threatened to take legal action against Netflix over the allegation made in the docuseries that he mixed his sperm sample with another donor's to see who the child would look like."I will take legal action for slander, this is really insane!" he said.Netflix did not immediately respond to BI's request for comment regarding his threats.

Netflix's 'The Man with 1000 Kids' is about a prolific Danish sperm donor. Mothers who say he tricked them 'just want him to stop.'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A court has ruled that a man who has fathered up to 600 children must stop donating sperm.</li><li>It follows concerns that his children could commit accidental incest and inbreeding fears.</li></ul>A court has ruled that a 41-year-old man who has fathered up to 600 children must stop donating sperm, a Dutch charity representing donor children <a href="https://donorkind.eu/massadonor-jonathan-41-mag-na-550-kinderen-zijn-sperma-niet-meer-verspreiden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has announced.</a>The donor, identified by de Telegraaf newspaper as Jonathan Meijer, a musician from The Hague, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/father-hundreds-gets-sperm-donation-ban-dutch-court-2023-04-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Reuters</a>, was forbidden from donating semen to clinics worldwide or face a fine of 100,000 euros ($110,000) per donation.Already banned from donating his sperm in The Netherlands, Meijer must now also contact clinics abroad to have them destroy his samples. Meijer, who now lives in Kenya, was placed on a Dutch donation blacklist after the publication in 2021 of an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/health/sperm-donor-fertility-meijer.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">investigation by The New York Times.</a> But he has continued to donate his sperm abroad, including in Denmark and Ukraine, according to <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/27/dutch-serial-sperm-donor-550-children-sued-incest-risk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">The Telegraph</a>.<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sperm-bank-donor-dad-banned-b2328873.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Independent</a> reports that Meijer would sometimes use a fake name when giving his donations."The donor deliberately misinformed prospective parents about the number of children he had already fathered in the past," the district court in The Hague said.Meijer had helped father between 550 and 600 children in the 16 years he had spent donating sperm, judges said, The Guardian reported."All these parents are now confronted with the fact that the children in their family are part of a huge kinship network, with hundreds of half-siblings, which they did not choose," it said, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/28/dutch-court-orders-sperm-donor-to-stop-after-550-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per The Guardian</a>.Dutch clinical guidelines say a sperm donor should not father more than 25 children from 12 families.The ruling comes after charity <a href="https://www.insider.com/sperm-donor-fathered-550-children-sued-reduce-incest-risk-lawsuit-2023-3">Stichting Donorkind and a mother who used Meijer's sperm sued him</a>, fearing that donor children could accidentally partake in incest by forming relationships with people to who they were unknowingly related.Donorkind is alleging that Meijer donated sperm to at least 13 clinics, the majority of them in the Netherlands, as well as communicated with prospective parents on social media using an alias.The woman, named only Eva, <a href="https://donorkind.eu/massadonor-jonathan-41-mag-na-550-kinderen-zijn-sperma-niet-meer-verspreiden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a statement:</a> "I am very grateful to all the people who have supported my child and me, and I am touched to see that the judge has now also supported us. I ask the donor to respect our interests and accept the verdict because our children deserve to be left alone."She added, "I hope that this ruling leads to a ban on mass donation and spreads like an oil slick to other countries."<a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/03/dutch-sperm-donor-faces-court-may-have-fathered-550-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Dutch News,</a> which described Meijer as an "obsessive" sperm donor, said the Dutch gynecologists' society, NVOG, first issued a warning about Meijer in 2017.

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